This is a second call to the European IBIS Summit Meeting for participation.
While we tentatively have 10 presentations (see below), we do have room for
several more. We have nearly 30 people signed up so far and we anticipate a
very interesting and informative exchange of ideas. So if you are interested
in doing a presentation or in participating, please respond to the notice
below. Note, some of the information in the Announcement is updated from the
original announcement.

DATE98 Show: DATE98 - February 23-26, 1998. The IBIS meeting is scheduled
the day following the last day of the trade show portion of the
Conference.

See www.date-conference.com for more information.

PCB Symposium: An all day symposium is scheduled Wednesday, February 25, 1998,
10 AM - 4 PM on PCB design issues. This is being co-organized
by seven EDA vendors: Cadence, Incases, Mentor Graphics,
VeriBest, Viewlogic, Xynetix, and Zuken-Redac. An informative,
vendor-neutral program and panel sesson is scheduled. Plan to
include DATE98, the PCB Symposium, and the IBIS Summit Meeting
in your visit. Registration is required. You can register
through several EDA vendors in Europe, through the DATE98
web site or else by e-mail to cweiss@cadence.com

BACKGROUND

As a result of regular EIA IBIS Open Forum meetings since 1993, IBIS Version
2.1 has been ratified both nationaly (in the United States of America)
as ANSI/EIA-656 and internationally as IEC 62014-1. Most of the IBIS
are conducted on a regular basis via teleconferencing, but the EIA IBIS
Open Forum also conducts two face-to-face meetings every year at the Design
Automation Conference (DAC) and DesignCon locations. While some of the IBIS
Summits focused on resolving standards issues, others have been used for
general IBIS information exchange. Historically, some of the IBIS advances
have come from such exchanges.

Because of wide-spread international usage and acceptance of IBIS, the
EIA IBIS Open Forum will hold a European IBIS Summit at the same time as the
DATE98 Conference and PCB Symposium in Paris, France. We are particularly
interested the international experiences and ideas at this IBIS Summit.

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

People involved in IBIS Model development, EDA tool development, and digital
circuit design are invited to participate in the European IBIS Summit meeting.
If you plan to participate, please register with the information below
(deadline, February 13, 1998):

We are seeking presentations from individuals who have IBIS experiences
or issues. We currently have about 10 tentively planned presentation,
but can accept several more. See below for what is currently planned.

Format of Presentation: Overhead Projections
Time: 15-30 Minutes
Electronic Archival: We request electronic versions so that the
presentations can be archived and also made
available to non-attendees. Formats used in
the past have been text, Power Point, Word,
Postscript, and Acrobat. Electronic presentations
should be made available by February 13, 1998.
Otherwise the presentor will be expected to provide
50 copies for distribution.

If you plan a presentation, please supply

Title:
Presenter:
E-mail address:
Company:
Telephone:

Estimate Time:

Send this to:

Bob Ross (bob_ross@mentorg.com)

AGENDA

The agenda includes presentations, discussions, breaks, and a buffet luncheon (which will be provided). Our tenative set of presentations include: